Until recently, conventional wisdom held that Donald Trump’s return to the presidency was a fatal blow for the Left. Trump would upend the Left’s agenda on key issues like immigration and climate and strike at its centers of prestige and power in academia and the bureaucracy. These things have indeed come to pass. But few expected Trump to discredit the Left by acting on one of its most noxious impulses: a disrespect for a functioning, if imperfect, status quo, and a desire radically to remake areas of social life.
There is no shortage of tariff opponents in the US. I am not sure whose ends they serve.
